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1955
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1955
Events
January
January 2
–
José Antonio Remón Cantera
, president of
Panama
, is assassinated at a race track in
Panama City
.
January 3
–
José Ramón Guizado
becomes president of
Panama
.
January 7
–
Marian Anderson
is the first
African-American
singer to perform at the
Metropolitan Opera
in New York City.
January 17
– , the first
nuclear-powered
submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from
Groton, Connecticut
.
January 18
–
January 20
–
Battle of Yijiangshan Islands
: The Chinese Communist
People's Liberation Army
seizes the islands from the
Republic of China
(Taiwan).
January 22
– In the United States,
The Pentagon
announces a plan to develop
intercontinental ballistic missiles
(ICBMs) armed with
nuclear weapons
.
January 23
–
Sutton Coldfield rail crash
kills 17 near Birmingham, England.
January 25
–
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
of the
Soviet Union
announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in
1941
.
January 28
–
United States Congress
authorizes President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
to use force to protect
Formosa
from the People's Republic of China.
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